Steve Jobs, personal email replier he is these days, responded to a message from a developer…
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"He doesn't understand the economics of game development fundamentally".

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There's no getting around it. Making a crude little weather or guitar tuning app might be easier and smoother using only one team's code, but games aren't simple little apps. They're complex beasts which rely on middleware to run smoothly.

And if games are such a big bread-winner for Apple on the App Store - which they are - you'd think Jobs would be a little more open-minded on the subject!

UPDATE - A few readers have pinged us to let us know that Jobs is referring to certain types of middleware, not all types of middleware; specifically, ones like Unity that "bottle up" game code (in Unity's case so it can run on multiple platforms) instead of allowing it to "roam free".